Objectives and competences

• enable the students to use appropriate scientific sources, • enable the students to use empirical pedagogical research methods in sport, • enable student to use classic or web based ways of data collection, • train students to carry out, in a team or individually, simple non-experimental empirical research in sport, • to prepare the students for writing research reports, empirical seminar and diploma work • training students to use modern and open-source statistics programs • train students to retrieve data and information from digital databases, • Introduction of students to artificial intelligence tools in the field of research • training students to critically evaluate information obtained from the internet.

Content (Syllabus outline)

• The role of the coach in the research (as mediator and validator of data, colleague, reseacher, mentor). • Citations – APA standard • Quantitative research method in sports • Basic statistical terms (statistical population, sample, variable, parameter, parameter estimation). • Basic methods of descriptive statistics and inferential statistics. • Statistical parameters – meaning of values • Statistical analysis of the data by using of SPSS • Case study in analysis of the data of the selected sports discipline by using of SPSS.

Learning and teaching methods

• lectures • tutorial • seminar work

Intended learning outcomes - knowledge and understanding

Knowledge and understanding: • know and understand basic methodological and statistical terms, • ability to use scientific sources, • abilty tu use research techniques, ways of statistical analysing of the data on the level of descriptive and inferential statistics, • able to use modern open source statistical programs • evaluate the results of the analysis and relate them to phenomena from the practice of sports training. • critically evaluate the information obtained

Intended learning outcomes - transferable/key skills and other attributes

Readings

Bratina, T. (2022). Metodologija pedagoškega raziskovanja : osnove : skripta izbranega študijskega gradiva. Pedagoška fakulteta Univerze v Mariboru Selimović, H., Opić, S., & Selimović, N. (2023). Metodologija istraživanja u odgojno - obrazovnim znanostima (1. izd., str. 276). Univerzitet u Travniku, Edukacijski fakultet. Štemberger, Tina (2023). Sekundarna analiza podatkov in masovni podatki v pedagoškem raziskovanju. Pedagoška obzorja : časopis za didaktiko in metodiko. 38(2), 73-86. Digitalna knjižnica Slovenije. Kožuh, B. (2013). Knjiga o statistiki. Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete. Novi pristupi metodologiji istraživanja odgoja. (2017). V S. Opić, B. Bognar, & S. Ratković (Ur.). Učiteljski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu.

Prerequisits

In order to fulfill the study obligations, 100% attendance in the tutorials is required. Completed practical assignment is a condition for taking the written exam.